Athlon Gold 7220C vs Athlon X2 QL-65

Primary details

Comparing Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon Gold 7220C processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Market segment	Laptop	Laptop
Series	2x AMD Athlon	AMD Mendocino (Zen 2, Ryzen 7020)
Architecture codename	Lion (2008−2009)	Mendocino (Zen 2) (2022−2023)
Release date	1 September 2009 (15 years ago)	23 May 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon Gold 7220C basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores	2 (Dual-core)	2 (Dual-core)
Threads	2	4
Base clock speed	no data	2.4 GHz
Boost clock speed	2.1 GHz	3.7 GHz
Bus rate	3600 MHz	no data
L1 cache	256 KB	128 KB
L2 cache	1 MB	1 MB
L3 cache	0 KB	4 MB
Chip lithography	65 nm	6 nm
Maximum core temperature	100 °C	no data
64 bit support	+	+
Windows 11 compatibility	-	no data

Compatibility

Information on Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon Gold 7220C compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration	1	no data
Socket	S1g2	no data
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon Gold 7220C. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions	65 nm, 1.075 - 1.125	XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
PowerNow	+	-

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon X2 QL-65 and Athlon Gold 7220C are enumerated here.

AMD-V

+

-

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics card

no data

AMD Radeon 610M

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	1 September 2009	23 May 2023
Threads	2	4
Chip lithography	65 nm	6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	35 Watt	15 Watt

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